Khanal, Rajani https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6141-6379
van Schooten, Kimberley S.
Piovezan, Ronaldo
Adams, Robert
Sansom, Kelly
Vakulin, Andrew
Funding for this research was provided by:
Flinders University
Article History
Received: 4 November 2025
Revised: 6 February 2026
Accepted: 18 February 2026
First Online: 7 April 2026
Declarations
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: The Health and Retirement Study is approved by University of Michigan Institutional Review Board (IRB0000921). All participants provided written consent for anonymous use of their public survey data.
: N/A (No identifiable individual data are presented).
: AV’s research is supported by NHMRC and MRFF funding unrelated to this work, and has received competitive research funding and equipment from ResMed, Philips Respironics, Withings and NeuroFlex for research unrelated to and outside the submitted work.RJA declares research funding and/or in kind support from the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Medical Research Future Fund, the Hospital Research Foundation, Flinders Foundation, Safework SA, Sydney Trains, Withings, ResMed Foundation, Philips, Neuroflex and the Lifetime Support Authority for research related to sleep.RK’s PhD stipend is provided by ResMed foundation and they have no role in the submitted work.Other authors have no conflicts to declare.